Taxon-omics Research Projects - SECOND Phase (2020-2024)
Applying integrative multispecies coalescent models to tackle the long-standing problem of species delimitation in allopatrically distributed populations
Prof. Dr. Axel Meyer, Dr. Julián Torres-Dowdall
Comparative and experimental wing pattern genomics in Lepidoptera
Dr. Marianne Espeland, Dr. Anna K. Hundsdörfer
Concepts, tools and support for managing, archiving, mobilizing and integrating taxonomic data in the framework of SPP 1991
Dr. Ivaylo Kostadinov, Prof. Dr. Miguel Vences
The CARRARA pipeline: Using machine-learning techniques for automated species delimitation in intensively hybridising plant genera based on herbarium specimens
Prof. Dr. Christoph Oberprieler, Prof. Dr. Frank Hellwig, Dr. Robert Vogt
Efficient use of herbarium material - Hybrids in Veronica as case example
Prof. Dr. Dirk Albach
Elevational replacement, higher tropical mountain passes and isolated sky islands: untangling neutral and adaptive processes driving radiation of Andean Apocynaceae (LI 496/33-1, NU 292/4-1)
Prof. Dr. Sigrid Liede-Schumann, Dr. habil. Nicolai M. Nürk
Establishing a standardized and universally applicable set of nuclear-encoded markers for genome-wide multi-locus species delimitation of metazoans
Prof. Dr. Oliver Niehuis, Dr. Christoph Mayer, Dr. Dirk Ahrens, Dr. Lars Podsiadlowski
Exploring genomic methods for delimiting species in radiations of terrestrial snails
Prof. Dr. Bernhard Hausdorf
Exploring the hidden diversity of widespread predatory amoebae of the order Vampyrellida (Rhizaria)
Prof. Dr. Sebastian Hess
Continuing the deep molecular characterization of eukaryotic microorganisms´ diversity and community composition in forest soils and the canopy region using a metatranscriptomics approach (micDiv II)
Prof. Dr. Michael Bonkowski, PD Dr. Kenneth Dumack, Prof. Dr. Martin Schlegel
FrogCap for the taxonomic gap: harnessing hybrid-enrichment for next-generation taxonomy
Prof. Dr. Michael Hofreiter
From field to museum: Harnessing the power of third generation sequencing to establish a simple and cost-effective multiplex approach for spider taxonomy
Dr. Susan Kennedy
Genomics of Hybridization and Species Delimitation in Cichlid Fishes
Prof. Dr. Axel Meyer
Integrated approaches to address taxonomic problems in the Prasiolaceae (Trebouxiophyceae, Chlorophyta)
Dr. Svenja Heesch
Jungle Genomics - overcoming the Linnean shortfall with Nanopore sequencing in biodiversity hotspots
Prof. Dr. Hanno Schaefer
Molecular evidence for sectional classification of shrub willows (Salix L. subg. Chamaetia/Vetrix) based on RAD sequencing data
Dr. Natascha Wagner
Molecular taxonomy of aquatic hyphomycetes by safeguarding of historical collections
PD Dr. Christiane Baschien
New approaches for high throughput species discovery and delimitation within unicellular eukaryotes, exemplified on choanoflagellates
Dr. Frank Nitsche
New approaches for species delimitation from genome data with examples to two widespread fireflies (Lamprohiza splendidula and Photinus pyralis)
Dr. Ana Catalán, Dr. Sebastian Höhna
Ophiuroid phylogenomics: Illuminating “dark” abyssal biodiversity
Prof. Dr. Pedro Martínez Arbizu
Phylogenomics of the genus Hypoxylon based on 50 new high quality genomes and with special emphasis on the H. rubiginosum complex
Prof. Dr. Jörn Kalinowski, Prof. Dr. Marc Stadler, Prof. Dr. Russell Cox
Proteomic fingerprinting for species identification – discriminatory power and optimal analyses procedures for integrated molecular and morphological datasets in zooplankton biodiversity assessments
Dr. Jasmin Renz-Gehnke
Resolving intricate taxonomies by using type material, HybSeq and geometric morphometrics – A proof-of-concept from the nasty Xanthium L. (Asteraceae)
Dr. Salvatore Tomasello
Species delimitation in the apomictic polyploid Ranunculus auricomus complex using an integrative TaxonOMICs approach
Prof. Dr. Elvira Hörandl
Sponge TaxonOMICs v2
Prof. Dr. Dirk Erpenbeck, Dr. Sergio Vargas, Prof. Dr. Gert Wörheide
TaxonOmics of Australian Chenopodiaceae
Prof. Dr. Gudrun Kadereit
The genomic basis of host specificity as tool for species recognition and delimitations in Ustilaginales - a parasite group with high gene flow
Prof. Dr. Dominik Begerow, Dr. Martin Kemler
Hybrid zones among Palearctic amphibian lineages as a model to understand temporal patterns of species formation and refine methods of species delimitation
Prof. Dr. Miguel Vences
Taxon-omics Research Projects - First Phase (2017-2020)
Using herbarium specimens to study evolutionary change related to climate warming - novel uses of natural history collections through specimen and label images
Professor Dr. Susanne S. Renner
Zooplankton biodiversity assessment by an integrated morphological and genetic taxonomy complemented by proteomic fingerprinting as a new and promising tool
Dr. Jasmin Renz-Gehnke
Biological soil crusts as unique microecosystem represent a suitable model system to address taxonomy and cryptic diversity of microalgal key players
Dr. Karin Glaser
Exploring genomic methods for delimiting species in radiations of terrestrial snails
Professor Dr. Bernhard Hausdorf
Next generation taxonomy of Bluebush (Chenopodiaceae): maximising the value of collections through integrated morphology, genomics and image analysis
Adjunct Professor Dr. Gudrun Kadereit
Setting-up a methodological pipeline for species delimitation and species network reconstruction in polyploid complexes
Professor Dr. Christoph Oberprieler & Dr. Robert Vogt
Lecanomics: New ways of species detection and recognition in a ubiquitous group of lichens
Dr. Christian Printzen
The influence of secondary metabolite genes towards the speciation of Xylariaceae (Ascomycota)
Professor Dr. Russell J. Cox & Professor Dr. Marc Stadler
Developing, calibrating and applying a genomic toolbox for species delimitation in Palearctic and tropical amphibians
Professor Dr. Michael Hofreiter & Professor Dr. Miguel Vences
Establishing a standardized and universally applicable set of nuclear-encoded markers for genome-wide multi-locus species delimitation of metazoans
Dr. Dirk Ahrens, Professor Dr. Bernhard Misof & Professor Dr. Oliver Niehuis
Deep mobilization of natural history collections of microscopic organisms using high throughput image analyses and interlinking with molecular data (MobiDiC - MOBIlization of a DIatom Collection)
Dr. Bánk Beszteri & Professor Dr.-Ing. Tim Nattkemper
Microgastropod Taxon-Omics: Towards a probabilistic and automated species-discovery system
Professor Dr. Thomas Wilke
A MuseOMICS approach to scrutinise DNA barcode failure: testing the causes for taxonomic incongruence patterns in phytophagous Hymenoptera and Orthoptera through hybridization capture using RAD probes
Dr. Oliver Hawlitschek & Dr. Stefan Schmidt
Deep molecular characterization of eukaryotic microorganisms´ diversity and community composition in forest soils and the canopy region across biomes using a multiple barcoding approach - micDiv
Professor Dr. Michael Bonkowski & Professor Dr. Martin Schlegel
The biodiversity of apomictic polyploid plants: the Ranunculus auricomus complex
Professor Dr. Elvira Hörandl
Sponge TaxonOMICs
Dr. Dirk Erpenbeck, Dr. Sergio Vargas Ramírez & Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide
Speciation through hybridization: Species concepts in smut lineages with common hybridization
Professor Dr. Dominik Begerow
Phylogenomic analyses from archival DNA
Professor Dr. Michael Hofreiter & Dr. Nicolas Straube
Types and genomes - Solving a conflict in frequently hybridizing taxa of Veronica
Professor Dr. Dirk Albach
Cheap and efficient museomics-based monograph: a test with melons and cucumbers
Professor Dr. Hanno Schaefer
Marine heterotrophic alveolates: a genomic and morphometric single cell approach
Dr. Uwe John
Re-evaluating taxonomy and distribution patterns of the Xanthophyceae (Stramenopiles)
Dr. Nataliya Rybalka
Innovative integration of high-throughput DNA barcoding, transcriptome-based constrained phylogenetics, hyperspectral imaging, and morphology to assess and characterize a poorly known fauna
Adjunct Professor Dr. Steffen U. Pauls
Mapping sequences to protist morphospecies
Dr. Frank Nitsche
Hybrid species recognition using "Next Generation Sequencing" (NGS) of museum specimens
Dr. Anna K. Hundsdoerfer
Analyzing historical plant-pollinator interactions by conducting pollen metabarcoding on museum specimens of German bumblebee species
Professor Dr. Birgit Gemeinholzer, Privatdozent Dr. Alexander Keller, Adjunct Professor Dr. Michael Ohl, Professor Dr. Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter
Species Delimitation in East African Cichlid Fish Adaptive Radiations
Professor Dr. Axel Meyer